E-commerce Innovation in SMEs: A Motivation-Ability Perspective
01 Jan 2008-pp 122-140
About: The article was published on 2008-01-01. It has received 7 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: E-commerce & Perspective (graphical).
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01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: In this article, an IC conceptual framework is proposed to help social entrepreneurs to visualize IC and its components in their organizations and discuss the implications for the development of effective innovation-based strategies in social enterprises.
Abstract: Very little research has investigated the role of intellectual capital (IC) in innovation processes in social enterprises. After reviewing the literature, my central argument in this paper is that IC assists social enterprises to harness knowledge that leads to innovation for the pursuit of social and commercial activities. Thus I contribute to the literature by theoretically arguing that IC can be utilized in innovation processes in social enterprises. I propose an IC conceptual framework which helps social entrepreneurs to visualize IC and its components in their organizations. Finally, I discuss the framework’s implications for the development of effective innovation-based strategies in social enterprises.
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TL;DR: A fuzzy linear multiobjective model is developed for supplier selection that will be able to identify effective criteria with the Nested-Design technique and their relative importance on supplier selection with FAHP and the authors expect that using this combination of techniques will have an impressive effect on reducing supplier selection costs.
Abstract: Decision making is an important task for entrepreneurs, and proper performance of purchasing has a direct effect on decreasing costs, increasing profitability, and survival of an entrepreneur. Also, entrepreneurs must follow formal rational decision processes as much as possible with fewer costs. To do so, they can use Design of Experiment techniques in combination with decision-aids. In this paper, the authors develop a fuzzy linear multiobjective model for supplier selection. With this model, the decision maker will be able to identify effective criteria with the Nested-Design technique and their relative importance on supplier selection with FAHP. In this regard, fuzzy linear multiobjective programming will be assigned a share of suppliers for supply and demands in the supply chain. The authors expect that using this combination of techniques will have an impressive effect on reducing supplier selection costs. DOI: 10.4018/jeei.2010040102 International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 1(2), 14-29, April-June 2010 15 Copyright © 2010, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. These findings show that despite, decision making is an important task and can affect the performance of firms directly; entrepreneurs do it quickly, using a few information. On one hand, innovation is the main characteristics, distinguishing entrepreneurs from small business owners (Carland et al., 1984). This means, more uncertainty due to innovative characteristic of entrepreneurs, resulting in more risks. On the other hand, risk is an attendant factor with entrepreneurship, like any other ownership (Schumpeter, 1934; Brockhaus, 1984). This risk can be a threat for entrepreneurs. Thus, as an entrepreneur, one must control risks by providing more information resulting in decreasing uncertainty. In such manner, entrepreneurs can improve comprehensiveness of decisions, making their firms’ performance better. One of the most important barriers to do so is the cost of information. In fact, information gathering is a time consuming and costly process. Thus, an intermediate manner should be chosen. In such manner, equilibrium between amount of collected information cost and risk will be established. Such an equilibrium point is where the total cost in minimized. This point can be seen in Figure 1. Finding such optimum point is a heuristic process. To do so, one can use tools which need minimum cost in collecting information. Such tools, related to topic of this article (supplier selection) are Design of Experiments (DOE) techniques. McMullen and Shepherd define uncertainty as what ‘separates entrepreneurial action from mere action’ (McMullen & Shepherd, 2006; Alvarez & Barney, 2005; Sarasvathy, 2001). It is also noted that “entrepreneurship theorists have embraced the position that uncertainty is detrimental to entrepreneurial action because properties such as hesitancy, indecisiveness, and procrastination are thought to lead to missed opportunities” (McMullen & Shepherd, 2006; Casson, 1982). Moreover, many empirical studies represent strong relationship between uncertainty and important entrepreneurial outcomes (Gans et al., 2008; Wu & Knott, 2006). Summing up, uncertainty is a pervasive reality in different entrepreneurial decision making dimensions. Thus, supplier selection as an important task is not an exception. Suppliers have impressive effects on Cost, Quality, Delivery time and etc. Therefore, supplier selection is one of the most important activities in purchasing management. Ghodsypour et al. (2004) proposed the Supplier selection is a Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) subject with some conflicting criteria. So, one of the purchasing management’s duties is comparing of suppliers in aspect of different criteria. DOE techniques are used in decision making process as a tool for detecting the effective criteria. The importance rate of the criteria varies in different purchasing situations. Therefore we need a method for considering the importance of criteria in supplier selection (Dulmin & Mininno, 2003). In practice, i.e., Supplier selection, some of input data aren’t crisp. In these cases value of criteria, constraints, priorities of criteria and etc. are expressed with ambiguity, for example: Figure 1. Cost of lack of information versus cost of information 14 more pages are available in the full version of this document, which may be purchased using the \"Add to Cart\" button on the product's webpage: www.igi-global.com/article/decision-aid-supplier-selectionentrepreneurs/46053?camid=4v1 This title is available in InfoSci-Journals, InfoSci-Journal Disciplines Business, Administration, and Management. Recommend this product to your librarian: www.igi-global.com/e-resources/libraryrecommendation/?id=2
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TL;DR: In this paper, the relevance of inertia in the context of digital transformation is highlighted. But the authors do not consider the impact of such inertia on the performance of the system itself.
Abstract: Incumbents’ inertia in the face of disruptive innovations has been emphasised in prior literature. The relevance of inertia is particularly topical in the context of digital transformation. However...
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01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: A part-time task by rwo innovative entrepreneurs over twelve months for the Australian Department of Defense was completed as a part time task as mentioned in this paper, with no additional resources or external consultants.
Abstract: The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) entrepreneurial venture challenge for the innovators was to develop an ERP database using standard generic database software within existing resources and available data at lowest cost in minimum time. The generic ERP database model so developed was completed as a part time task by rwo innovative entrepreneurs over twelve months for the Australian Department of Defense. They used standard generic database software, existing data, with no additional resources or external consultants. This action research was undertaken on a longitudinal basis by the two entrepreneurs networking closely with the many internal and external stakeholders. The Australian Department of Defense is a complex, high tech Australian Federal Govemme111 Department of around 90,000 employees. In 2008-09the Australian Department of Defense will spend more than $9.6 billion acquiring and sustaining militaty equipment and services, and will employ over 7,500 people in more than 40 locations around Australia and overseas (Department of Defense, 2009). This comprises the procurement of defense capability products (goods and services) and their support and mailllenance from almost every industry sect01; on a global basis. Hundreds of small to large enterprises are dependent on the Australian Department of Defense for such orders. The anticipation of the developers of the ERP database was that this entrepreneurial venture could not only help the Australian Department of Defense become an inclusive knowledge based/earning society, but subsequently provide an inexpensive database model for other organizations, large or small.
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02 Jan 2020
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